OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Experimental Biology is 26. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
What do molecular laws of life mean for species: absolute restrictions or mere suggestions?	115
Correction: Behavioral and physiological evidence that increasing group size ameliorates the impacts of social disturbance	68
Night-light illuminates wasp behaviour	57
Head lice dispose of blood meal fluid through breathing tubules	52
ECR Spotlight – Michael Pedersen	49
Featherwing beetles fly with style	48
Grease keeps polar bears ice-free and silent	41
Arduino allows development of a low-cost, high-resolution metabolic and behavioral phenotyping system for birds	39
The physiological consequences of a very large natural meal in a voracious marine fish, the staghorn sculpin (Leptocottus armatus)	38
JEB@100: an interview with Monitoring Editor Katie Gilmour	37
ECR Spotlight – Brett Culbert	37
Cold, cheap love songs	36
Spotted salamanders seek humid habitats to avoid drying out	34
Temperature and the microbial environment alter brain morphology in a larval amphibian	32
ECR Spotlight – Alexis Kazen	32
Why the superb physiological capacity of birds matters	32
Sensitivity of the mystacial vibrissal system of harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) to size differences of single vortex rings	31
Tibial strains are sensitive to speed perturbations, but not grade perturbations, during running	31
The impact of metabolic plasticity on winter energy use models	31
An early-life perspective is needed to explain the impact of gut microbiota on wild vertebrate phenotypes	30
Thrust production and chordal flexion of the flukes of bottlenose dolphins performing tail stands at different efforts	30
Obligatory homeothermy of mesic habitat-adapted African striped mice, Rhabdomys pumilio, is governed by seasonal basal metabolism and year-round ‘thermogenic readiness’ of brown adipose tissue	29
Ontogenetic exposure to light influences seabird vulnerability to light pollution	29
Comparative sound detection abilities of four decapod crustaceans	29
Time-energy budgets outperform dynamic body acceleration in predicting daily energy expenditure in kittiwakes, and estimate a very low cost of gliding flight relative to flapping flight	27

Aerial maneuvering by plethodontid salamanders spanning an arboreality gradient	26
Temperature outweighs diet in shaping developmental performance in two cricket species via growth delays and physiological limits	26
Functional diversity and behavioural use of fibre-producing silk glands in Pholcus phalangioides	26
Factors affecting the biosynthesis and emission of a Drosophila pheromone	26